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2011-02-20

Sunday Snippets

Tidbits of information I picked up this week:

Today is Love Your Pet Day! Give yours an extra cuddle or two :-)

Speaking of pets, is there pet fur all over your furniture? Don a pair of rubber gloves, dampen the palms and run your hands over chairs, sofas, etc to pick it up easily! (Woman's Weekly, January 31, 2011 issue)

Use stray buttons to corral earrings in your jewelry box - just "thread" the posts through the holes. (Woman's Weekly, January 17, 2011 issue)

Drinking 6 cups of water a day will decrease the appearance of wrinkles 24% within 8 weeks! Drink up and look young longer ;-) (Women's Health, January/February 2011)

Like garlic? Drink milk when you have it - studies show milk reduces the presence of compounds that cause garlic breath by 95%! Whole milk works best. (Women's Health, Jan/Feb 2011)

Another reason to eat LOTS of veggies: because we now grow crops faster and bigger than in the past, there is a reduced output of nutrients in our produce compared to 60 yrs ago: carrots have 24% less iron than they once did and broccoli has 37% less calcium than just two generations ago! Calories are low, so fill up for maximum benefit! (Women's Health, Jan/Feb 2011)

And, on a local note: The Independent relaunches tomorrow, Monday, February 21st! The local paper folded in 2008 and is returning as an online-only publication, with regular contributors from all walks of life. Check it out at http://theindependent.ca/ (that link should become live on the 21st- in the meantime - here's a visual reminder of the paper-that-once- was and the online-publication-to-be :-)